Change Log

2.0.0

Oct 3rd, 2023

• New version of our online XML Sitemap Generator Launched.
• Old version moved to https://legacy.xmlsitemapgenerator.org

Saturday, 9 May 2020

• New : Hosting arrangements
• New : Updated Canonical URL rules
• New : Robots meta and rel nofollow / no index rules
• New : Diagnostic tool improvements
• New : Increased the max page size to 300Kb
• New : Detect Javascript sites and warn
• New : Detect and warn about 403

Thursday, 19 March 2020

• New : Privacy policy updates.
• New : Consent and use of cookies.
• New : Automatic download of your data.
• New : Right to erase your data

Thursday, 11 October 2018

• New : Serverless computing code and infrastrcuture update (see below).
• New : Updated processing rules and limits to reduce wasted resource (see below).
• New : Updated EULA and privacy statement.
• New : Updated captcha / human detection.
• Fix : Tweaked error logging to remove redundant content.
• Fix : Error and log links on sitemap download page.
• Fix: Image parsing unprotected “critical section” error.

Monday, 5 September 2016

• New : Upgraded website to Zurb Foundation 6
• New : Improved website performance
• New : Minor cosmetic / content updates to our website
• Fix : Sitemap Image url issue.
• Fix : Contact us form issue
• Fix : Donate form
• New : More reliable email notifications

Monday, 30 May 2016

• New : Website diagnostic tool -Fix: processing of http equivelent refresh meta tag.
• Fix : noindex / nofollow rules to ensure pages that we’re not indexed we’re still followed where there wasn’t a nofollow value.

Monday, 16 May 2016

• New - Sitemap Upgrade / update

Sunday, 2 March 2014

• New : Sitemap files available as a single zip file download.
• New : Improved download page
• New : New error report.

Saturday, 15 February 2014

• Fix : Improved Character encoding
• Fix : Improved HTTP 301 redirect and 302 Moved handling
• Fix : Improved pattern matching
• Fix : Fixed https validation

Thursday, 13 February 2014

• Fix : Spider Performance Improvements

Sunday, 9 February 2014

• New : Follow meta refresh tag e.g. http-equiv=“refresh”
• New : Automatically follow both www. and non www. urls.
• Fix : Errors with duplicate urls for frames.

Monday, 29 April 2013

• New : Support for RSS Sitemaps added

Friday, 26 April 2013

• New : Index all file extensions by default

Monday, 21 January 2013

• Fix : Indexing websites with port number.
• Fix : Some issues with indexing framesets and image maps.

Thursday, 10 January 2013

• New : File limit increased from 100 to 250 (as a trial).
• New : Index iFrames and Frameset option.
• New : Default settings changed so it will spider all links and query strings by default.
• Fix : Some problems with checking querystring and file extensions.

Saturday, 5 January 2013

• New : Email alert facility to let you know when your sitemap is ready.
• Fix : Error locating sitemap when spidering from a non root location.

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

• New : Spider will now follow image-maps